RoeblingFest spotlights local history, culture

12:14 PM,
Jun. 17, 2013

Written by

Community Recorder

RoeblingFest 2013 is Saturday, June 22, at Roebling Point in Covington. Tours of the John A. Roebling Bridge have been the focus of the festival since its inception in 2004.

This year tours of the Roebling Murals on the Covington floodwall, tours of the statues along Riverside Drive, including a visit to the Dan Beard home, and a new Roebling Heritage Sites tour led by historian and author Don Heidrich Tolzmann will also be available at RoeblingFest.

The tours are provided by the Covington-Cincinnati Suspension Bridge Committee, the citizen's group responsible for the decorative lighting ...